Wall, paul. And the threats. Hes been terrific. Now if he ever goes against me, i wont say that, okay . When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. In 37 days donald trump will become president of these United States. We have breaking news tonight. Two Senior Intelligence officials tell nbc news that russian president Vladimir Putin was involved in efforts to disrupt the u. S. President ial election. That conclusion is based on intelligence from diplomatic sources and others including spies working for americas allies. That comes on top of growing consensus in the Intelligence Community in the u. S. That russia was behind multiple large scale attacks on Democratic Institutions and operatives producing fodder for countless embarrassing and politically damaging stories at the height of the president ial election. The in the just had amazing reporting on the alleged scope of the russia Cyber Attacks which targeted the Democratic National Committee Chairman po
Tonight, and he is coming off a summit with some of the people who were his strongest detractors during the campaign. Senior National Correspondent john roberts is outside trump tower again tonight. Good evening, john. Bret, good evening to you. It was the highest Profile Summit yet at trump tower, which is directly behind this bus behind me, and also the highest dollars. Donald trump played host to hightech billionaires, most of whom actively campaigned against him in the election. Well, i just want to thank everybody. Reporter it was a crowd that just weeks ago had been openly hostile to donald trump. Amazon founder jeff bezos who during the campaign claimed trump was eroding the democratic process. Apple ceo tim cook who raised millions for Hillary Clinton. Facebook coo Sheryl Sandberg also backed Hillary Clinton, as did tesla and spacex founder, elon musk. Today trump urged them all to put political differences aside and focus on growing the economy, Point Out Tech Stocks have been
Destruction. This is threatening a feud between the top agencies and the President Elect white house. Were getting phew reaction from moscow. Well get to that in a moment. Lets bring in eugene scott and tom lobianco. Good morning. The strategy behind this statement. Just three sentences. Unsigned. What what is the the calculation here from the trump folks . Its a continuation of Donald Trumps message during the campaign that he believes he knows more than the Intelligence Community. Thats a hard sell to make at this point, given that we know he only is getting about once a week president Daily Briefs Gnat would give him more information about National Security globally. That statement is inaccurate. These are not the same people that were heading the departments when the Bush Administration was in place. This is new information and new revelations about what is happening abroad. Tom, i talk t about the
possibility that this would cause a feud between the Intelligence Community and the
Months, they cant have a replacement. The democrats are very happy in some ways they are going to get rid of obamacare. This was the one big answer paul politically. This was one big answer, a new solution that was going to be revolutionary and change things for the better. Didnt work. They are happy. We had it for six years. Theyre happy to dump it off. Im more optimistic, there are a lot of pitfalls, we can go through them, if we have momentum, get one part down on the replace part, it creates the conditions for further things down the road. So i think that the main thing is that they need to show momentum. They have the repeal and show good things being done. Because our goal is not, the problem is, obamacare is like, closing down a nuclear plant. There is all this waste. You cant turn it off and walk away. You have to be careful with that waste because it can kill you in the meantime. So i think they just have to have the momentum. Paul the argument is, that you hear, and i hear is
Hearts we werent going to kill them. That was training. That kind of training helped prepare them for the treatment that they got. John mccain was tortured. What they did to him in the hanoi hilton and other Prisoner Of War Sites in North Vietnam was torture. Weve never done that kind of thing. Never condoned it. Some of our allies may have done it but we department. The bottom line is, when congress made these things illegal, theyre going to stay illegal until Congress Changes it. Neil when i hear the president said as he did today in this Press Conference and that he would defer i hope i have the right wording there to his Defense Secretary, what did you make of that . Well, i make of it donald trump became famous for saying year youre fired. If he doesnt like that the
secretary of defense wont do it i know these mean well. I know jim mattis very well. He was not going to issue that kind of order and he has the authority to issue though orders. Hes not going to do it. Into if the pre